The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 16, 1937, Page 2

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The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or geneval interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- of be gag inne tions of c., will for at THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Li WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be | efraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; aiways fight for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or elass; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue; commend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contemirate the reader; never comm promise with principle. OO IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN ‘ People who talk a blue: wise about religion seldom give until it hurts. It is easy to see both sides of a ques- tion if we are not interested in either. PC SEE Sy, Anyone who has n> appreciation of the beautiful in life hasn’t been properly educated. eiehiertteitiptec oman The wife who worships her husband need not necessarily place burnt offerings before him. Water and Sewerage. e- Bridges to complete Road to Main lund. Free Port. Hotels and Apartinents. Rathing Ravilion. Abport—-Laud and See. Consolidation of County and City Governments. sere e In war days men cowered in the mud and slime of the trenches; today they still cower in Europe for fear of the dictator. A word to the wise is sufficient, it is said; in fact it is superfluous, for the wise do not require or give grounds for ad- monition. It is philosophy’s belief that fear is a symptom of some wrong condition in our- selves. Conceded, but what makes a chicken so jittery? More than 70,000 drivers who fell | asleep at the wheel were reported during | the past year as being involved in auto- mobile accidents. Be careful where’ you} sleep! | i One can leave neither wisdom nor ex- / perience to one’s heirs, and the govern-! ment by inheritance taxation, now doesn’t | permit leaving them much of anything else, either. { “Work is the proper employment of the faculties God has given us,” said Wil-; liam Randolph Hearst in a recent address to young people. Milton’s precept to! “Shun delights and live laborious days” is one everyone may follow to happiness and success. There is a Chinese proverb which ‘about 6,000 tons of it, valued at approxi- says: afford te dismount.” counterpart is more expressive turesque “He who rides a panther cannot The concerning the “When you have a bull by the tail can’t afford to turn loose.” American and pic- predicament:| ple number, can get by casuhlly mention- you; } zeroes precede the 9051 i 33 YEARS OF FLYING. i December 17 marked the 33rd anni- versary of the first airplane flight by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, N. C., in 1903. After long experimenting these, aviation pioneers succeeded in getting | their plane off the ground by its own power, but the first flight lasted only 12 seconds, during which time it flew 120 feet. ! Later in the same day a second flight | of 59 seconds was made. making flights marked the beginning of man’s mastery of the air, fulfilling an! age-old ambition which most persons de- | clared could never be realized. In fact, | it was only a few days before the Wrights { actually accomplished it that a certain} Congressman on the floor of the House in| opposing an appropriation for experiment: | ing with flying machines asserted that any | one who thought human flight would ever be possible was a fool. At first progress was rather slow, and for several months only straight! flights were made, but on September 15, | 1904, Orville Wright made the first turn in the air, and five days later succeeded in flying in a circle. The first time a plane remained in the air as long as_ half an hour was on October 4, 1905, with a flight lasting 33 minutes. From that time on developments by the Wrights and others were rapid. 5 Among the other early airplane | builders and flyers who became fangs | may be mentioned Curtiss, Bleriot, Santos- Dumont, Farman, the Voisin brothers and their associates. Many daring aviators lost their lives through attempting stunts in exhibition flying which were too diffi- cult for the primitive machines employed. | Contemplating the amazing feats of present-day aviators, it is difficul t to realize that the flying art is only 33 years old, » HOARDED GOLD Soon Uncle Sam’s two-story vault of! steel, concrete and stone at Fort Knox, Ky., will contain the greatest hoard of gold ever concentrated in one locality in| the history of the world. There will be| mately six billion dollars. The impregnable vault built for its safe-keeping was begun more than a year ago, and is located in the interior of the country because it is there safer from pos sible attacks by an enemy nation in the event of war. In addition to the protection afforded by the vault itself, there will be a strong force of guards, equipped with machine guns, electric warning devices, flood lights and every modern means for insuring safety. The vault can be flooded by the push of a button, and the flame of an} acetylene torch will release poison gas to kill the would-be robbers. | This impenetrable fortress is _bomb- proof and undoubtedly the strongest struc ture ever built by man. It cost about | $500,000 and is now completed, ready for | the immense treasure which it will guard. Shipments of the gold bullion to Fort } Knox wili go chiefly from New York andj Philadelphia, ‘and will be in charge of the Post Office Department, which will re-| ceive from the Treasury $100,000 for the transfer. The gold will go by train, ac companied by a guard of postal inspector and railway service men, in addition to! two officers and 32 soldiers for each train. Dates of shipment will be kept; secret, and it is expected that about 50 trips will be made covering a period of! six months or more, The new vault will no doubt anyone from stealing its vast treasure, something else may be required to keep| Congress from spending it. | | keep | but | FOR INTELLECTUAL FAKIRS One of the secrets of appearing well- informed is to be able, offhand, to give | the speed of light, the measurements of the univer$e and, by comparison, the ap-! proximate size of electrons. t Many of our readers are familiar with the first two requirements listed above but the size of the electron may baffle them. For their use, just in case they need ac- curate figures, the latest measurements of the electron give its mass as 0.0000000000- 000000000000000009051 gram. Intellec tual fakirs, unable to pronounce this sim- | ing the fact that a decimal point and 27! i These epoch-}, | Ohio { the Stanford Nearly everyone these days craves security. Our recollection of the re- cent depression, which was of un- Gsual length and severity, is so vivid that security naturally makes a tre- mendous ap- peal, But what does security mean? What do we wish to be secure against? In this country security means mainly reason- able assurance of a continuing income. We wish to be as- sured that we shall continue to have food, shelter, and clothing, even though ill, injured, or unem- ployed, whether the unemployment be due to an industrial depression, seasonal fluctuations, or merely old age. In many, if not most, foreign coun- tries, however, security means much more than this. There security means not only assurance of the necessities of life, but protection against foreign enemies. At a recent meeting of the All- Union Congress of Soviets, General Khripin, assistant chief of the Red Army air force, told the wildly cheering delegates that the USSR has now the most powerful air fleet in the world. It has hundreds of planes with a speed of 280 miles per hour, and in the near future it will have planes with a speed of 375 miles. Moreover, the production of air- planes in the Soviet Union is almost double what it was in 1935. Why does the USSR need so many planes fly- ing at such a great speed? Because (Address questions to the author care of this newspdper) ot Key West Shore With the Conch shells And wiid flowers on the Blooming in grass from Gul And alw and ever And break on the rocky Roll out to the reef In Pira' Security Here and Abroad By ELIOT JONES Professor of Transportation and Public Unites, cea at my door and old foan and winds and a sa whe! University her security is threatened by Ger- many and Japan. If Germany pro- poses to train quickly 70,000 aviators, because her security is threatened by eral Khripin), in order to be secure against Germany and Japan. Pre- sumably these countries, in turn, must then construct more airplanes and train more aviators in order to be secure against Russia, and so on and so on, This armament race, envisaged as giving security against the foreign foe, necessarily means that the peo- ple of these countries are unable to enjoy the good things of life that are embraced in our concept of security. as much, in announcing Hitler's sec- fact that Germany is once more en- circled by a world of enemies, the people, he said, must make further sacrifices. They must consume less meat, cream, milk, and butter. The Germans, it appears, should now know on which side their, bread is to be buttered—on neither side, The speech of General Goering makes quite clear that the controlling principle in the feeding of people un- der dictatorships is ungerfeeding. Whether the objective i: Fifteen- Year Plan to build up a. Roman Empire, or a Four-Year Plan to make Germany independent of for- eign food stuffs and rae “materials, the plan always entails at the outset less food, poorer shelter and clothing, and fewer creature comfogts. Plans to achieve this type of sapicit. al- ways involve sacrifices and tightly- drawn belts. The people must go without that which makes tife worth | living in order that they, may have what the dictators are pleased to call security, and in order that the dic- tators may build up their’ naira of power. | “hin record cov the USSR, then the USSR must have { at least 100,000 aviators (says Gen- | General Goering recently admitted | ond Four Year Plan. Because of the | northeast to east winds. Normal Mean Rain! Yestecday’s Brecipitatton Nor Precipitation ... .05 Ins. Zi-howr period coding at % o'elock thin morning. Te Sun rises Sun’ sets Moon rises . ;Moon sets . High Sea level, 30.13. WEATHER FORECAST (Till 7:30 p, m., Sunday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy with scattered showers tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature; moderate Florida: Most!y cloudy ton‘ght and Sunday. with occasional light rain in extreme north and scat- tered showers on the coast and Florida Keys. Jacksonville to Florida Stra‘ts and East Gulf: Moderate north- east to east winds, and partly overcast weather tonight and Sun- day. WEATHER CONDITIONS southeast The western high pressure aceat has moved eastward to the Lake region, Sault Ste. Marie, 30.52) inches, and Louisville, Ky., 30.54) l inches, and overspreads most of the eastern half of the country; while the northwestern low pres- sure area has moved southeast- ward to the central Rocky Moun-; tain States, Denver, Colo., 29.64 inches. Light to moderate qietee tation has occurred during the I can never forget glistening, wet; rocky shore the ocean’s floor. s@ " ii alty smell t billows that swell ~ shore, and then aA re they crash again. . .,. —MARIE CAPPICK. tes Gold Farewell When you go, And_life will turn Clouds will dim Bir Music Bach day, nging, without But though your going makes me wi When you're By gone, “RASPUT! | SCCCOCROCCE svcvEeVGeBe00 Today’s Anniversaries ese 1782 Longworth, landowne Nicholas horticulturist, patron of the arts, father of the ce Speake at Newark, N. J. Died Feb, 1863 born 10, 1815—Henry Wager Halleck, engineer, participating formation of California. Francisco , land-owne: sol ithor, at one time Union command e hief, born in Oneida Co., Y. Died Jan, 9, 1872. 1833—James D, Smillie, artist, {born in ew York. Died Sept. |14, 1909. 1858—Elwood Mead, expert, Federal reclamation com- CONDENSED STATEME! Comptroller’s Call RESCURCES and Inve:tments Furniture and Fixture. Other Bonds and Sec tle tock of she uri- Federe al Re- rect and/or guaranteed Cash and due from Banks great grand-) my brow will age a darker page a bright blue sky— flowers die, em half as sweet you, incomplete “Dp Vl get more sleep. IN,” Orange Park, Florida. [ eiaones, born at Patriot, Ind. | Died Jan, 26, 1936. { { foster | 1859—William Roscoe Thayer, | ; Boston author and man of let- | iters, born there. Died Sept. 7,| 1923. 1864—Frank wright, born a | Died Nov. 19, last 24 hours throughout most of the eastern portion of the coun-! try, except in central Florida, in! the lower Rio Grande Valley, | northern Rocky Mountain States, | and on the Pacifie coost from San Francisco northward. 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